Example sentences of "this be [adv] [adv] [conj] " in BNC.

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1 Nearly all of Dad 's acquaintances were called ‘ Johnny ’ , this being much easier than having to remember every man 's christian name .
2 When a [ makonde ] sculptor departs from the stereotype [ … $ this is nearly always because an element of doubt or defiance has been worked into it ; a madonna is given a demon to hold instead of the Christ Child ; a priest is represented with the feet of a wild animal , a pietà becomes a study not of sorrow but of revenge , with the mother raising a spear over the body of her dead son .
3 This is particularly so when considering rural advice services .
4 This is particularly so when it is remembered that the working parties are serviced by the DES , whose influence on a group of disparate experts meeting only intermittently and working under great pressure , is very considerable indeed .
5 This is particularly so when the nationals and corporate bodies of the member states do not benefit from reciprocity in relation to a takeover of a body corporate situated in these third countries .
6 The counsellor needs to be aware of the wishes and expectations of both old and young alike about the nature of the caring role within the family , and this is particularly so when families live separately .
7 This is particularly so when mobility , speech or hearing have been impaired , perhaps after a serious stroke .
8 This is particularly so when you take into account that most people feel they are in the right when they are angry , whether they are or not .
9 This is particularly so when it is remembered that certificates are only granted in those cases where there are reasonable grounds for taking action .
10 This is particularly so where the ‘ safe life ’ design philosophy has been applied .
11 This is particularly so where tribunals have their own appellate tribunal .
12 This is particularly so where it is felt that the consideration did not have a causative effect upon the authority 's determination and where the decision being impugned is not determinative of rights , such as a decision by a local authority to refer a landlord to a rent tribunal .
13 This is particularly so if the standard of care is bad , because poor nursing care will then be perpetuated .
14 Breaking down the walls of knobache is , of course , the most clichéd subject possible for a pop song but this is both swirly and burly and rarfer tasty .
15 we go on hoping and fighting and imagining , despite whatever goes wrong with anybody but the Tory Party is diverting itself with internal feuds and in focusing attention on whether Mr Major will remain Prime Minister or not and this is presumably so that they may ignore the real issues of how to the get the country onto some shared basis of consensus , trust and pragmatic politics which would give our society a chance of facing up to questions of economics , politics , pollution and living together in community in the sort of world we 've actually got .
16 All you need to do is to collect the thorns yourself the day before your own net is set — and this is easy enough since you know precisely where they are .
17 The average man may perhaps think it an exaggeration but I do assure you that this is factually so and nights are not now so dark that I can not be completely aware of what is happening around me before , during and after the nets have been set .
18 This is probably partly because it is always possible to land one on grass ( or any other hard surface ) with remarkably little damage , especially if the ground is wet .
19 This is most probably because she is unsure of lasting love in a marriage .
20 This is clearly so and it would not be right to approach the issue in this case without recognising that the result for which the health authority contends is one capable of resulting in substantial injustice .
21 This is apparently so whether or not there has been compliance with the formal requirements of company law applicable to dealings with the property of a company and even to cases where the consent relied on is ultra vires : see Reg. v. Roffel [ 1985 ] V.R. 511 and Reg. v. McHugh ( 1988 ) 88 Cr.App.R. 385 .
22 New Scientist is no exception here , but nearly always this is rightly so and well deserved .
23 This is hard enough when you are considering a normal decorating job , but when it comes to choosing paint for a special job , then the task can be very complex .
24 The reason for this is quite simply that these aspects of deixis mostly make no difference to truth conditions .
25 In my view and also , if my memory serves me correctly , in Dr Reeves ' view , this is quite simply because it doubles up as a transmitter with very sharp rise and fall times on its pulse width modulated waveform .
26 This is never once and for all , but slowly and more or less surely .
27 As Rubinfeld ( 1987 ) notes , this is all right if everyone in the community is identical , but it causes an obvious problem if there is heterogeneity .
28 This is all so that we can produce more that we can eat , and yet for some reason the excess ca n't be sold off at reduced prices .
29 Problem solving : This is almost exactly as in the simple solution .
30 This is almost certainly because the decision to send them in during the later stages of the accident was political ( western-made robots might have been used instead , had the new Soviet leader , one Mikhail Gorbachev , been willing to let the West learn the extent of the disaster ) .
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